This paper employs variance ratio tests with both homoscedastic and heteroscedastic error variances to examine the random walk hypothesis for the Hang Seng Index on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The empirical investigation leads us to suggest that the Hang Seng follows a random walk model and...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is not only a transfer of capital, but a complex bundle of capital and firm-specific assets. In particular, the transfer of production know-how improves overall productivity of FDI-receiving firms and to some extent also that of the other firms due to spillovers....

Enders and Granger provide critical values to test the null hypothesis of a unit-root against the alternative of threshold adjustment. However, in obtaining their critical values, Enders and Granger did not use a consistent estimate of the threshold nor did they use a lag-augmented data...

A specific form of deterministic exponential heteroskedasticity is examined. A non-trivial unit root process which has exponentially heteroskedastic innovation and as a consequence, a variance that vanishes asymptotically is detailed. Such a unit root stochastic process, with exponential...

The paper examines whether the form of job-sharing strategy adopted in Nordic countries is theoretically effective. This strategy converts workers approaching the age of retirement to part-timers by giving them partial pensions, which thereby creates job openings for younger unemployed workers....

This note focuses on uncovered interest parity (UIP) in the short and medium run using survey-based exchange rate expectations. Analysing the major world currencies over the period 1985-1998 the paper finds that the validity of the UIP relation increases with the term of the investment, thereby...

The stability of the Japanese money demand function is empirically analysed employing the notion of seasonal cointegration. It is found that money balances, interest rates, and real GDP have unit roots in different cycles. The seasonal cointegration tests reveals that seasonal cointegration is...

Government expenditures and revenues are shown to be trend stationary with a break in the deterministic trend. This is in contrast to the claim that these two series are non-stationary and integrated of order 1. It is therefore inappropriate to first difference data to achieve stationarity....

Mediterranean countries provide a test case for examining the effectiveness of foreign capital in promoting economic growth. Focusing on the supply side of the economy, the econometric model answers two questions, using available panel data from 1960 to 1996: does foreign aid have a positive...

This paper examines whether innovative start-ups have the intention to go public. Using a sample of electrical manufacturing firms in Japan, it is found that firms investing heavily in research and development (R&D) are more likely to have the intention to go public. From the viewpoint of...